A 3-ary max heap is like a binary max heap, but instead of 2 children, nodes have 3 children. A 3-ary heap can be represented by an array as follows: The root is stored in the first location, a[0], nodes in the next level, from left to right, is stored from a[1] to a[3]. The nodes from the second level of the tree from left to right are stored from a[4] location onward. An item x can be inserted into a 3-ary heap containing n items by placing x in the location a[n] and pushing it up the tree to satisfy the heap property.

Which one of the following is a valid sequence of elements in an array representing 3-ary max heap?

Given two arrays of numbers a₁,......,a_n and b₁,......, b_n where each number is 0 or 1, the fastest algorithm to find the largest span (i, j) such that a_i+a_i+1......a_j = b_i+b_i+1......b_j or report that there is not such span,

Which one of the following in place sorting algorithms needs the minimum number of swaps?

In a binary max heap containing n numbers, the smallest element can be found in time